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Babi Yar

Weaved with sky the slope of hill.
Silently stand the chestnuts.
Imerald grass is above...
Yes, that the green field,
Looks like blood today.
And the head bends down to field.
 
In silence, here, people stand,
It's heard the whisper of their dress.
That is the Babi Yar of fate.
That's my brothers blood.
That's the Women Gulf of fate.
That's my brothers blood.
 
Not so far the ground lies.
And just hand to touch the sky.
To the sky I have rised up and to earth I down crawled.
Sorry, sisters, I was not near you.
And in your growling I didn't weave my cry.
 
The air is full of pain.
The Sun is wide as moon.
That's the Babi Yar of fate.
That's the groan of my songs.
 
The fresh winds are blowing.
With too late repentance
will not hear truth the dead.
That s why the people stand in mournful grief
uder chestnuts leaves.
 
My God. Where is the way to go...
Judgment mine is awful for myself.
That's the Babi Yar of the childhood
That's the cry of our hearts.
That's the Babi Yar of the childhood
That s the cry of our souls
 

Gonna go to Leningrad

- Gonna go to Leningrad!
- I’m so glad! - I’m so glad!
There those two were softly saying,
Braking up and were assailing.
- You're like that! - You're like that!
- You're bad! - You're bad!
Gonna go to Leningrad!
- I’m so glad! - I’m so glad!
 
It all happened at the station,
At the midst of summertime.
Made all decisions, affirmations
And the tickets bought meantime.
Up to waist in smoke is covered
Engine, set to go about,
Express train of light blue colour
Almost ready to pull out.
Gonna go to Leningrad!
- I’m so glad! - I’m so glad!
 
But when in a peaky cap a fellow
Held his little flag upright,
Engine blew out steam in billows,
Semaphore been set alight,
When exactly at twelve-twenty
One bell rang, another rang -
It is now time for departing,
It is now time for departing:
- My endearing! - My beloved!
- I’m like that! - I’m like that!
- I'm bad! - I'm bad!
- I won’t go to Leningrad!
- I’m so glad! - I’m so glad!
 

Prophetic fate

Versions: #1
I have lost way, don't know where
I have seen miracle there
On cold water over there
In dirty wearings
Through the river in a wink
Old man roamed as on land
Or in Past time was his shape
Or in Future time
 
But such really frozen bound
And snowstorms still whirl around
I saw off him by my eyes
I've heard beats of heart
Lonely, humpy was passing by
Maybe was she fate of mine ?
I would ask her, but my lip
Just was numb at all
 
By field, field, field,
By white, white field smoke walked
Hair were darker than the tar,
Turned gray-haired
 
And old man walked, as a wraith,
On new snow shoeless
Whether over horizon
Or in deep of ground
And black height was so strong
And snowflakes had tired of song
They were dropping on his shape
But they didn't melt
 
Right in ringing silence he,
Turned around straight to me
And I felt goosebumps my back
By so icy wave
He was faced me and was slept.
'Who're you, old man ?'- I had yelled
But old man laughed,laughed to me,
Disappeared at all
 
By field, field, field,
By white, white field smoke walked
Hair were darker than the tar,
Turned gray-haired (x2)
 
I would not faith to my eyes,
Would join everything with tears
Maybe everything were there,
It was imagined
Suddenly, my friends, I saw
Him in mirror and I thought
It should be that meeting mine
Was prophetic
 
By field, field, field,
By white, white field smoke walked
Hair were darker than the tar,
Turned gray-haired (x2)
 

Lie to me

Lie to me, just make it last forever,
So I would neither ask why, nor recall when and where,
So I’d believe the lies freely without any thought,
So I’d follow into the dark at random, even if I ought not.
 
And not to know who came, who blindfolds,
Who leads thru the maze of unfathomable halls,
Whose breath burns hot next to my face,
Who squeezes too tightly in his embrace. 1
 
And then, I awake just to see the fog and the night,
You will lie and yourself by this deceit you will abide,
You will lie to me, utterly and forever,
So I would neither ask why nor recall when and where.
 

• 1. lit. squeezes my hand so firmly in his hand.

Spring waltz

Day by day years fly by without much notice.
March after February melts out of focus.
Just yesterday blizzards came down howling,
And already snow in the fields is darkening.
 
La-la...
This winter has quite left us behind somehow.
 
So will spring go by with the rains and the first leaves.
Into the grey cloudy sky the sun its flames shall heave.
Just give a slight hand wave when by chance floats up a memory
Of the awakened river and birds insistent cry.
 
La-la...
This spring had run away from us.
 
Day by day life flies by without much notice.
March after February quietly melts out of focus.
Just yesterday blizzards came down howling,
What was it long ago then we failed in knowing?
 
La-la ...
Life, like a dream, it was and was not, it was ...
 

Among a Great Plain Lowland

Versions: #1
Among a great plain lowland
On one flat lonely hight
A tall and splendid oak stands
It is in its strenth and might.
 
This oak is tall with spreading crown
Well seen how it grows.
But it’s alone, it’s quite alone
A conscript on the watch
 
When there’s a bright sun on the sky,
Its shade is not in use.
And when a storm strikes deep at night,
Who’ll help if it need secure?
 
There is no a willow nor a pine
On this hill by this place.
Nor any curly green bush
Is twining at its base,
 
Oh, even a tree’s in sorrow
When it is quite alone,
And so a man bore bitterly
Without his dear one.
 
I have some gold and silver things,
But whom I’ll give them now?
I get much honour and respect,
But who will share my pride?
 
When I meet people whom I know,
I say them ‘Hi!’ and pass.
When I see lovely smiling girls,
There’s nothing but words of nice.
 
Some people are whom I escape,
Some others dodge my way.
All friends are not reliable men,
They’ll leave me in bad day.
 
Where my soul can receive a rest?
When thunderstorms will fade?
My sweetheart sleeps deep in her grave,
She cannot give a hand.
 
There’s neither family nor kin
In this strange foreign side.
My sweetheart cannot tender me,
She was true friend of mine!
 
An old man doesn’t drop sweet tears
When sees our happy days,
There’s no children sporting near
Around my home place
 
I wish they’d take away the gold,
The honours and the prize!
I miss my longway motherland,
Return my sweethfriend’s eyes!
 

Let it lie (Smallfoot)

There was a time when yetis lived below
We were safe, never scared until the day we happened to disturb the Smallfoot
That's right, we used to live there
But there were things that were scarily wrong there
 
They had something that separated them from the animals
We found out about human nature
Innocent questions disappeared from our lips
When they answered with lightning, and with spears, and with sticks of thunder
 
They called us monsters, as if we were the threat towards them
That we were to be huntet, that was clear as day, no doubs about it
To flee was the only way out
It was enough, we understood that we stood before our end
 
We crawled up the mountain in order not to die
Because we knew that smallfoot can't take the ice and snow
So it was here that the first law was written in stone
It was spread, undisputed, as a clear truth
 
Our world is an island that's floating on a sea
Of thick clouds, a small enclave
Then the laws became more, they led us on the right path
Yes, for all our sake there was no other way
 
To protect ourselves from the fighting of the human race
That they spread with endless foulness
 
Watch and learn, watch and learn, watch and learn
Watch and learn, watch and learn
 
A new law today
Watch and learn, watch and learn, watch and learn
 
Stop digging, just let it lie
Let it lie
 
Watch and learn, watch and learn, watch and learn
Watch and learn, watch and learn
 
We can have a good life
Watch and learn, watch and learn, watch and learn
 
Stop digging, just let it lie
Let it lie
 
Wait, we're under the clouds
Many say that, but look closer
It's not clouds, it's steam!
 
The stones are working
 
Ever duty, every job, for adults and for children
They fill their function so that this big machine
Can toss and turn and spin even more
So that no one looks up, and no one looks down
 
Because trust me, no matter what I say they'll start looking
Because the only thing that's bigger than fear is the will to know
 
Watch and learn, watch and learn, watch and learn
Let it lie
Watch and learn, watch and learn, watch and learn
 
You feel the courage from your nobel pursuit of what is true
But you're young and naïve and something of a dork
So let me explain that what you know of life is a small amount
And what's true and not true is in the eye of the beholder
 
So do you want to save our world and steer fate?
Then the goal has to be only to control the flow of information
Can you stand quiet and let Smallfoot pillage and torment us?
Then protect the lie, so they all stop asking
 

Delilah

The night is there and I could still see light, as I showed up at yours,
And also two shadows, that I saw and knew, what they were.
She can't be faithful,
Despite her oaths, her and the other are still a couple.
 
For us both, Delilah, it's over, Delilah!
Because we have both loved each other so much,
That's why I choose, Delilah, the only way out, there is.
 
As the morning came, I saw the other go away.
I went up to her and asked, why.
She laughed,
And then, I raised my hand, frightened her and it was silent.
 
For us both, Delilah, it's over, Delilah!
Tell me, why is our love only agony?
Forgive me, Delilah, I don't have other choice!
 
She was my life.
What happened next, yes, I will never understand.
 
For us both, Delilah, it's over, Delilah!
Because there is never a way out for both of us,
That's why, Delilah, that is why everything's over.
Forgive me, Delilah, for us everything is just over.
 

When I make a comeback

loose translation by Dmytro Zelenskyy
March 30th, 2018
 
When I make a comeback [-don’t start laughing]
- yes, no kidding, when I do come back,
at the end of cold season I run
through the dirty snow desert
never touching the ground,
as barely visible trek
leads me to the night lodging and warmth…
[and - imagine it further -]
on yours birds voice decoy
I will flinch with a joy
and in search turn around… oh, boy!
when I make a comeback
 
Oh! When I do come back…
... hey, listen, hey, listen, - don’t laugh... then…
… when I do come back...
From rail station directly,
just easily passing
all customs,
from rail station I’ll run into town -
dark, poor and fake -
that has nothing, but curse me and
barking for my decimation…
… when I make a comeback,
oh, when I do come back…
When I make a comeback,
I then go
to exceptional house
with blue dome such a perfect - the skies
can’t compete it on beauty,
olibanum aroma -
the smell of a shelter and bread -
will hit me with a splash
and through nose pours to wash up my heart
when I be here back…
oh, when I do come back…
When I make a comeback,
in despite of the Feb
nightingales will start whistle
the old melody -
ancient, forgotten and fade,
there I fell, knocked, defeated
by very own victory and overwhelmed,
and my head ‘ll come to the rest
at your knees
like at natal levee… oh, Marie
when I do come back here…
… but when I’ll come back here?
 

I live for the absurd like everyone else

I live for the absurd like everyone else
I scold everything I don't understand
And when a tenacious thought appears
I burn it down inside me
 

Russia has a women's soul

Russia has a women's soul.
Birches are shoulders, fields of gold.
Sunsets' amber - shine of hair,
Skin and eyes - snow and blue air
 
Scarlet maples are sweet taste of lips,
Osier's leaves - homely eyelashes,
Voices are spring birdies' warbles,
And heartquake - as the village winds.
 
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Tomorrow the world explodes

It's unbelievable how gray everything is without you
But you aren't much better, so pale as you are.
We try to hate each other,
But it doesn't work,
Because we always feel something like love.
 
Look at the news,
At what's happening.
No one really knows
How it will go.
 
Every glance is costly,
Let's not waste any time,
If today is the last day I want to live it with you.
 
Tomorrow the world explodes,
But we have tonight,
Tomorrow the world explodes,
Let love have the power.
And we celebrate ourselves and celebrate life,
Until the Big Bang.
What happens tomorrow,
We race through the night in free fall.
 
Tomorrow the world explodes,
But the morning is not far.
Kiss me today for immortality.
 
I dance over the abyss, without you I'd fall in,
Try to forget you,
But nothing has worked,
We'll do everything as if we were heroes tonight in this city.
 
Tomorrow the world explodes,
But we have tonight,
Tomorrow the world explodes,
Let love have the power.
And we celebrate ourselves and celebrate life,
Until the Big Bang.
What happens tomorrow,
We race through the night in free fall.
 
Tomorrow the world explodes,
But the morning is not far.
Kiss me today for immortality.
 
(But we have tonight)
 
Tomorrow the world explodes,
Let love have the power.
And we celebrate ourselves and celebrate life until the Big Bang.
What happens tomorrow,
We race through the night in free fall.
 
Tomorrow the world explodes,
But we have tonight,
Tomorrow the world explodes,
Let love have the power.
And we celebrate ourselves and celebrate life until the Big Bang.
What happens tomorrow,
We race through the night in free fall.
 
Tomorrow the world explodes,
But the morning is not far.
Kiss me today for immortality.
 

Wish

I want that you never grieve,
That you like to shout out loud:
'Alright!
I want to live!'
 

A Tiny House at the End of the World

A tiny house at the end of the world,
built1 on happiness, our love saw.
Time passed, we hardly noticed,
for this happiness was as splendid as a dream.
 
The wind sang a sweet2 song in the trees
and you wanted to be at my side,
come what may.
 
Now you're far away and [will] never return.
Abandoned by happiness stands a lonely house.
 
The wind sang a sweet2 song in the trees
and you wanted to be at my side,
come what may.
 
Now you're far away and [will] never return.
Abandoned by happiness stands a lonely house.
 

• 1. Lit. 'standing'
• or 'tender'

I will never look for you

Versions: #2
Never I will write not a line, you shouldn’t wait my letter too.
Never I will look for your love, but love will find the way to you.
 
Starless night and silent day,
There were some dreams that went away
That’s too long for me to wait,
And too simple to get all that
 
I will never look for your trace
But love will find the way to you
I will never seek your address,
You shouldn’t wait my letter too.
Question that you never will hear:
Where were you? What’s in your past ?
Never I will look for you, dear,
But love will find you, my sweetheart.
 
Sky with clouds is blue and white,
You’re like fairy bird but still you are not mine.
I had prophetic dreams they told me
Not to seek you and never believe
 
Only...
 
I will never look for you hence
But love will find the way to you
I will never seek your address,
You shouldn’t wait my letter too.
Question that you never will hear:
Where were you? What did you do?
Never I will look for you, dear,
My love will find the road to you.
 
Listening music of wild winds
Hearing breath of my soul,
You will leave cold of streets
And fly to me
 
(Chorus:)
I will never look for your trace,
But love will find the way to you
I will never seek your address,
You shouldn’t wait my letter too.
Question that you never will hear:
Where were you? What’s in your past ?
Never I will look for you, dear,
But love will find you…
 

What's Ahead

The night leaked through his hands
And with her went the scent from your body
You're like water that dissolved in sand without a trace
And I only wanted one
 
.
What's ahead, what's in the eyes
So that the soul is not destroyed
So it's not a pity to stay
My heart is in your dreams
 
I've been with you for so many years
I follow the trail like a shadow, I try to understand everything
Where, how, for what star
The world was made by you, but i'll wait again
 
.
What's ahead, what's in the eyes
So that the soul is not destroyed
So it's not a pity to stay
My heart is in your dreams
 
I don't sleep calmly, I'll flip your world around
I'll return to you! I'll return to you, I'll return!
 
What's ahead, what's in the eyes
So that the soul is not destroyed
So it's not a pity to stay
My heart is in your dreams
 
Entirely my own work, please quote/reference me if used elsewhere.

Triptych in Rememberance of V. Vysotsky

-1-
 
If it's so, good. If it's all for a reason,
If the wind is to blow and the trees are to wave,
If we live a happy life [only] so long as we don't live to the age of one hundred,
And then we go every which way, but then we still come back.
 
If we live a happy life [only] so long as we don't count up to one hundred,
And then we go every which way, but then we still come back.
 
Everyone comes back: friends and foes,
Via the most beloved and loyal women.
Everyone comes back, and they go to the circles [of hell],
And again they don't trust their fate, to a greater or lesser extent.1
 
Everyone comes back, and they go to the circles [of hell],
And again they don't trust their fate, to a greater or lesser extent.
 
If it's so, good. That means they seek their fate,
But instead they find themselves, if they find at all,
If you've seen a hole in a forehead in a coffin2
Going belly up, kicking the bucket at rest with fathers, or however else thay say in common language.
 
It feels good even in a coffin so long as you've got a hole in your forehead,
Going belly up, kicking the bucket at rest with fathers, or however else thay say in common language.
 
But even the eternal fire will burn down,
This sleep is good but still not eternal.
The entrance to the Milky Way is open in the East,3
And again the milk runs down your chest, down your lips, and you can't change the meeting place.4
 
The entrance to the Milky Way is open in the East,
And milk again, and you can't change the meeting place.
 
-2-
 
If a woman is sober, if a woman is bored,
It's probably hard and cheerless for her to be with us.
But you pour her some wine, you reach for the bottom -
Oh, she'll give you the grain and everything to fire up the stove.
 
But you pour her some wine, you reach for the bottom -
Oh, she'll give you everything to fire up the stove.
 
And again you collect your loaf crumb by crumb,
And again drop by drop you spill your blood into boiling water.
The life won't forgive only those who thought ill of it:
A woman only takes revenge for not accepting her love.
 
The life won't forgive only those who thought ill of it:
A woman only takes revenge for not accepting her love.
 
So catch this word to begin all your affairs at once,
You're supposed to wrestle everything down again
For the girl called Time to plait fairy tales,
For the boy called Time to shoot his sling.
 
For the girl called Time to plait fairy tales,
For the boy called Time to shoot his sling.
 
So that they don't forgive you if you don't understand the game,
If you don't catch the ball and don't even cry yourself to sleep.
If you don't understand, if you don't even sing along,
Then instead of a guitar you'll grab a rattle again.
 
The rattle rattles, yet it's hollow inside.
It's boring to listen to for a hundredth time, you can have too much even of a fairy tale.
So don't wait until they count up to a hundred,
It's better to hear seven times, to say once,
Or to build,
To cook or to sing, to prove -
But for that, you must feel a message in a tale.
To bind tighter, to bind tighter,
You must feel the resolution is coming soon.
 
-3-
 
A wheel track on water. But you can't get
To Wonderland5 by it, especially light-handed and with smalltalk.
So don't reproach me:
'Why on Earth did you go into the water?'
Of course I'll sing, of course I'll sing,
But I'd rather we sing together.6
 
So don't reproach me:
'Why on Earth did you go into the water?'
Of course I'll sing, of course I'll sing,
But I'd rather we sing together.
 
For it feels good if the choir strikes up on a high note together with you,
Missing the notes but heartfully and straight to the root, and the roots will get along with the soul.
Is anything wrong?7
Everything seems as usual, the same sky is blue again,8
But something must be different
If it suddenly felt so good.
 
But why guess? The sky is high,
Yet the Earth where you're to knead dough is close at hand.
If you erect a cross over Wonderland,
Then you've chosen the best place for the Cross.
 
If you erect a cross over Wonderland,
Then you've chosen the best place for the Cross.
 
But our dead won't leave us in danger,9
Our fallen are like watchmen on duty.
But the sky is reflected in you and in me,
And in the name of the names, let the alive not leave the alive!
 
The sky is reflected in you and in me,
And in the name of the names, let the alive not leave the alive!
 
All in all, there's enough place in the dugout for everyone.
What do we want? Just peace and mercy for our house.
And the hearty laughter storms through the clouds:
'To be or not to be? What's the question if it couldn't've been other way?'10
 
And the hearty laughter storms through the clouds:
'To be or not to be? What's the question if it couldn't've been other way?'
 

• 1. A reference to Vysotsky's song 'Korabli' (see )
• 2. 'To see smth. in a coffin' means 'to be sick of smth.'
• 3. The word восход can mean 'East', but its general meaning is 'sunrise' or just 'rise, ascention', so the line can also be read as 'the entrance is open for ascention'
• 4. 'The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed' is a Soviet TV miniseries featuring Vysotsky
• 5. 'Alice in Wonderland' is a broadcast musical play featuring sons by Vysotsky
• 6. Another reference to 'Korabli' (see footnote 1)
• 7. Or, literally: 'Is anything different?'
• 8. A reference to Vysotsky's song 'On ne vernulsia iz boja' (see )
• 9. Further reference to 'On ne vernulsia iz boja'
• 10. The role of Hamlet was Vysotsky's most famous theatrical work.

Не верујем у чуда

За тебе ћу постати црна муња
Црна муња на линији кише
И нека горе листови календара,
Зло ме више не може преварити.
 
Не верујем у чуда
Али лете кола у небо
И сада сам ја твој супер херој.
 
Као бели снег упашћу у твој длан
И сазнаћеш, како те волим
И под небом јануара оживеће само за тебе
Сва цвећа земље,
све речи љубави, које знам ја.
 

Do you know to where

Tell me why it happens1
that everything happens so quickly.
Started yesterday
ended today
 
what we dreamed
what we dreamed.
 
Do you know to where
the dreams they're all escaping?
are the unfulfilled ones
passing me by?
Do you know to where
my heart travels?
Whenever
it longs for love?
To you
 
For only there I want to be.
With you
 
but I am alone.
 
Do you know to where
the dreams they're all escaping?
are the unfulfilled ones
passing me by?
Do you know to where
my heart travels?
Whenever
it longs for love?
(2x)
 

• 1. Wörtlich« entfliegt »

Tell me when

Tell me when, tell me when,
Tell me when, when, when.
I can see you again,
I always have time for you.
Tell me when, tell me when,
Tell me when, when, when,
I can kiss you again,
Under the palm trees like today.
Let us dream by the sea,
A dream full of love,
Because life appears to me
As beautiful as a dream.
Tell me when, tell me when,
Tell me when, when, when, when, when,
I can see you again,
Tell me when, tell me when.
When, when, when
Let us dream by the sea,
Little lady full of love,
Because life appears to me
As beautiful as a dream.
Tell me when, tell me when,
Tell me when, when, when, when
I can see you again,
Tell me when, tell me when.
I can see you again
Tell me when, tell me when
When, when
 

Tricoloured Dream

Red, blue and apricot -
Colors of Armenian independence.
I saw a dream, that self-sufficient
Armenia becomes again
 
That in all its splendor will flourish
Its blooming fields,
And from the beginning starts live
Armenian nation by its destiny
 
That and the azure skies
Masis will finally smile,
Because freely it will live...
Oh, would it stay a dream indeed?..
 
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I know, that someday your just demand will be solved

I know, that someday your just demand will be solved,
That in your old-aged eyes I will see the shine,
And the desired peace star of our lives will ascend,
And give its light to all the nations in our world unite
 
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Here again, I'm in Jerusalem

Here again, I'm in Jerusalem,
Upon all the things, under two thousand stars in the skies
Among sparkling gold, eternal and great
When we find ourselves in Jerusalem, we can understand everything
Ravishing land, beautiful city of creation,
And within my heart pray is flowing,
Everything here is saint, simple, pure and warm,
Here it is Israel, and Jerusalem in its heart, that will shine forever
 
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They Call Me Cuba (v2)

I come from where the sun warms the land
And from there where the heart beats more sincerely
I come from where the Son spends hours
Wooing the Rumba, singing to her that Bolero
 
I bring my religion and hope
Mixed with my drum and my melody
I just want you to know how it feels
When your soul is full of all of my Cuban spirit
 
I am a pure Cuban
And my roots I'll defend with my life
I am Cuban and wherever I may be
I will sing to my beloved Cuba
 
I come from where the sun warms the land
The land I was born in, where I will live
That's why I now bring you my song
So that you know the reason why they call me Cuba
 
In order to really know what it's like to be Cuban
You have to have been born in Cuba
You have to have lived in Cuba
 
In order to really know what it's like to be Cuban
You have to read by heart Martí's work, Guillén's prose
Look for a guayabera shirt and a palm-leaf hat
 
In order to really know what it's like to be Cuban
So that it reaches your heart, brother
You have to have been born in Cuba
You have to have lived in Cuba
 
A true Cuban gives his life for his land
He lives straight and true, ready for combat
And he holds tight to his flag
 
Eh
May the Mambo go even higher
Listen to it!
Look!
 
No one dances as I do
No one revels as I do
That's for sure
They call me Cuba
What was that
Cuba is my name
That's what they call me, my friend
 
No one dances as I do
No one revels as I do
They call me Cuba
Cuba is my name
 
Hands up in the air Cuba
No one dances as I do
No one revels as I do
They call me Cuba
Cuba is my name
 
That's who I am
No one dances as I do
No one revels as I do
They call me Cuba
Cuba is my name
 
No matter what they say
A Cuban
A Cuban I'll always be
Forward
From San Antonio to Maisí
A Cuban
I will always defend you
Forward
No matter what state the world is in
A Cuban
And the street is on fire
Forward
Cuban move forward (Cuban) living in the hills
Forward
For we were never cowards
 
(Trumpet solo - La Bayamesa)
 
Cuban move forward
Cuban move forward
First class
 
Cuban move forward
Cuban move forward
 
Cuban
Stop joking
Forward
Stop jesting
Cuban move forward
Cuban move forward
 
Cuban
Long live Cuba
Forward
You know where I come from
 
I come from Havana
And so, and so
I'm first class
Because I put on a palm-leaf hat
And I wear a guayabera shirt, which is what there is
 
I come from Havana
And so, and so
I'm first class
Because I sing to you from my heart
In a sincere way which is what it was
 
I come from Havana
And so, and so
I'm first class
Let them know this even in China, goodness!
I'm first class
And listen to how they say
Pay attention to how the world says
I'm first class
I'm first class
 

Clouds Drift Lazily and Sorely

Clouds drift lazily and sorely
In the azure heat of the heavens.
My path is long and uneasy
In the motionless anguish of woods.
 
My horse is so tired, snorts under me,
Sometime-ago shelter dear to me?
And there, far away, in the thicket of forest
A trace of a sung song wind carries.
 
It seems if the voice was silent,
It would be difficult to breathe,
And horse, snorting, would fall to the ground,
And I would be unable to ride!
 
Clouds drift lazily and sorely
In the azure heat of the heavens.
My path is long and uneasy
In the motionless anguish of woods.
 
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What I Have to Say

I don't know who would need it and what was their reason,
Who's sent them to their deaths with unquivering hand,
They've been granted no mercy when people were easing
Their bodies in wet graveyard sand.
 
Cautious onlookers silently kept adjusting their fur coats,
And some woman from motley crowd with contorted pale face
Kissed the blue lips of her beloved, the deceased [one] she used to dote,
And she threw her gold wedding ring at the chaplain apace.
 
They were covered with green fir boughs and with dirty sand layers,
Then spectators went home to discuss on the sly
That it's high time to end all this [sad] disgrace and say prayers,
That the famine is coming soon and we'll have to scrape by.
 
And no one had a simple thought just to get down on his knees
And to tell these deceased young boys that in this dismal land
Even glorious feats are just steps to endless abysses,
To the Spring that is out of reach, that is splendid and grand.
 
I don't know who would need it and what was their reason,
Who's sent them to their deaths with unquivering hand,
Only they had no mercy when people were easing
Their bodies in wet graveyard sand.
 
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With Cupid Arrow,

Will I hit the target,
With Cupid arrow,
The secret of love I'll open for you!
 
I open my eyes, hello,
Wings, arrows, I'm dressed,
I climb higher than ever,
I'm above the clouds.
I spread my wings and slightly,
Colour heavens,
I see the picture on the ground-
He is leaving and she is in pain,
But in life Iplay apart-
To fly and shoot,
To join the hearts!!!
 
Will I hit the target,
With Cupid arrow,
The secret of love I'll open for you!!
Will I hook up
With Cupid arrow
Two halfs at once
Will find an answer!
 
As my arrow would have pierced,
Like a boomerang it became for me,
Suddenly you in my heart.
Somewhere there on Earth
You'll remember me-
The arrow is flying towards you!!!
 
Will I hit the target,
With Cupid arrow,
The secret of love I'll open for you!!
Will I hook up
With Cupid arrow
Two halfs at once
Will find an answer!
 
Don't cry rain-
For I'm with him
Fighting with my sadness and longing.
I believe somewhere there,
Deep in my soul,
Will come to me that bright love!!
 
But I will get the target
With Cupid arrow
I'll open for you
The secret of love!
Will I hook up
With Cupid arrow
Two halfs at once
Will find an answer!
 

Among your sunshiny lakes

Among your sunshiny lakes
I'm a tree, flourishing by love
Among your motley fields
I'm a flower, blossoming by shine
 
Among your honeyed valleys
I'm milk, tenderly flowing
Among your violaceous skies
I'm a cloud, sejant on your mountains
 
Among your ravishing mountains
I'm a full moon, yellowed by gold
And there's neither end, nor start
For life lived among love
 
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I fell in love with Ukraine

I fell in love with Ukraine
Like with a country girl
I adore to drink down the hatch
All of your wines!
 
I fell in love with Ukraine
Like with a country girl
Infinite plains,
Golden domes!
 
I fell in love with Ukraine
Like with a country girl
Amazing power,
The most beautiful land!
 
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Meaningless Words

Versions: #3
Pour a little magic into that crystal wine glass,
Mirrors are reflecting the shimmering candle light.
I'm tired of issuing meaningless words.
My flame has burned out, and you've not relighted it.
 
Meaningless words are the essence of falsehoods.
Meaningless words are easy for me to say.
Meaningless words. But just don't misjudge me.
Meaningless words. I'll soon finish talking.
 
Your doorbell won't be ringing.
You won't hear me hurrying to visit.
Just don't tell me, when our end is beginning.
No hurry for meaningless words to resolve our fate.
 
Think of a time of tenderness, of spring,
Of matted grass, cornflowers with their aroma,
Centuries old, scattered everywhere.
Meaningless words, meaningless love.
,
Meaningless words, the essence of falsehoods.
Meaningless words, easy for me to say.
Meaningless words. Just don't misjudge me.
Meaningless words. I'll soon stop talking.
 
Your doorbell won't be ringing.
I'll not be hurrying to visit.
Don't let me know, when our end begins.
No hurry for meaningless words to seal our fate.
 

Oh, how I madly want to live...

Oh, how I madly want to live:
To make all things immortal, dateless,
Give human form to all things faceless,
To incarnate the inactive!
 
Let life's most heavy dream now smother,
And may I be choked in this sleep -
And yet, perhaps, a simple brother
Will in the future say of me:
 
Forgive his gloom - for really, could it
Be his drive, for no soul to see?
He's but a child of light and goodness,
He's but a feat of all things free!
 

Heads of grain

I haven't seen before such heads of grain...
They're golden, though it's autumn, they're up, though there's wind,
They also stretch up to the skies
And they're taller than me with their gain
 
Rain's stealthily whispering something by leaves,
As on keys, wind is playing with branches,
And something from cosmos does mightily stream,
Something eternal, what is just between us
 
Let the rainfall drum by roof of the car,
Drench, which absorbed all the skies in itself ,
Any top he'll be able to reach anyhow -
The one whom his native land expects and loves
 
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